Dr Paul Willis

The whole punk movement came and went while Paul was still in high school and, being the dweeb that he is, he preferred bushwalking to head bashing.

Paul had always had an interest in dinosaurs and fossils so, after a brief flirtation with the music of Jimi Hendrix, he went to Sydney University to study zoology and geology. This was the early 1980s and the air was full of Duran Duran, which held no appeal to Paul so he pursued further studies at the University of New South Wales where he completed a doctorate studying fossil crocodiles.

Paul has had many weird and wonderful jobs over the past 10 years including a stint as the Curator of Vertebrates at the Macleay Museum in the University of Sydney and a couple of years touring Australia with a life-size inflatable Tyrannosaurus rex as part of a primary school education program. In 1992-93, he spent nearly 9 months in Bonn, Germany, as part of an exchange program where he drank too much beer and measured lots of dead crocodiles. The music in this period is completely forgettable.

In early 1997 Paul landed a traineeship with the ABC as a Science Broadcaster and has been annoying people with a microphone ever since. His radio achievements so far include The Correx Files for Triple J, a regular talkback segment with Angela Catterns on the metro stations and articles for The Science Show, Earthbeat and The Health Report.

These biographies usually end with the biographee giving a quote of great wit and deep philosophical insight. Paul can't think of one at the moment but swears that he will get back to us. "Trust me".

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